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rifling bit for 16 inch guns.

A lot of these are great

3 out of the last 4 presidents have been born in 1946.

Leftists: "Mega corporations are the enemy of the people" *Trump calls the mainstream media which is largely made up of mega corporations enemies of the people* Leftists: "wtf i love mega corporations now"

How panzerjager halftracks are made

lol, revenge of the Iraq

Vehicles of the 240th training tank regiment of the 129th training mechanized infantry division of the Far Eastern Military District; Bikin; ~1969-1972. IS-4s, SU-100s, T-34s and 54s More:

That Borderlands demo made me legitimately excited for BL3. And I am not a Borderlands guy.

Fine, but the New Testament is very clear too:

OMNOMNOMNOM:

That is fake news.

Of course, if we were to follow scripture, we would not have pork sausage on our pizza either. Also, what about mixing dairy and meat? That sure ain't cool according to the old testament. Small Asian child, please present the pressing theological question of our time...

Same

Donward, you are wrong concerning eggs with ketchup but right about pineapple on pizza. Pineapple and ham on pizza is a legitimate sub-species of the greater pizza family.

Your Dear Leader eats his eggs over easy, with ketchup.

Mustard is the king of condiments. Also, I will put steak sauce on anything even remotely resembling meat. BBQ sauce is good with most things. Worcestershire sauce is at least fun to say. Ketchup is so fucked up, no one can even decide how to spell it.

I just want to say that I could not give a single fuck about the fact that the Donald eats his steak well done with Catsup, nor will that fact cost him a single vote with his core constituency. Out here in the midwest people put that wretched condiment on everything. Even omelettes. Gross.

They're desperate because they are dying. Television is dying and they are losing their stranglehold. When a humble water filter merchant in an armed compound in Texas can rival your Multi-Billion dollar advertisement platform's media reach you're done. Finished. Dead. Their nightmare has come true.

The Oroville Dam spillway is pretty messed up.

It's a rumor, but comes with good reason, because we do imported 10 sets of MTU 8V331TC41 engine ( Leopard 2's MTU873's civil use version) in 1978, what we wanted is to make a tank engine version of it, for our future tank (at that time's future tank). The question is, the 960hp 8V165 ( V-8, cylinder diameter=165mm, which means 120hp per cylinder) prototype engine based on MTU failed in test again and again, the reason is simply: we don't have that level of technology in early 1980s, and Germans refuse to give us any help when we asked, so this engine had no way to go but died. After it failed, in 1981, we decided to devlop a new 1000hp 12V150 engine (and we hope we can improve it to 1200hp later) , which means 83hp per cylinder, so it's more easier to made than the 8V165. With the help from CV12 ( Challenger tank's 1200hp engine, we imported from British in 1985 and made a lot of live test on BK1850~BK1871, and obviously our technology level was better in 1985 than 8V165's 1978 ) and western experts ( I know they helped, but I don't know how much ), this one is at least more reliable and been installed to WZ123's prototype. It was declare success in 1998, here, I don't know if it achieved 1000hp in 1998 or before 1998, anyway this is 9910's engine. And Type99 (the 2004 type) installed its 1200hp version. So basicly this engine is a Chinese one with some technology from British more than German. Type99A has a new engine, it is said it's a whole new engine developed all by ourself, but I don't know its detail. I don't know the whole codes for Type80 and Type85 family, I only know Type85-II AP's code is BK1055, and Type90-II is BK1062. And there is another interesting thing, somehow Plant 617 has a T-72 upgrade plan called BK1041, no detail info. I never heard Type85-IIA, I don't think it has been built. Type85-III's 1000hp engine pack comes from Yugoslavia, I never heard anything about we work with Poland on any tank. Type80's engine: Max 730HP at 2000 r/min, fuel cost 237~313L/100km ( type59 is 180~190L/100km in the same file, doesn't mention if it is on road or in the field, maybe the lower one is on road and the higher one is in the field), lubricant cost 8.5~10.3L/100km (type59 is 6~8). Type80: Max speed 57km/h (type59/69/79 is 50km/h in the same file), average speed on road is 35~40km/h (type59 is 30~33, type69/79 is 32~35). I think the Type80 with D10T gun is a early prototype. I don't know where you find this early Type99's picture, but that's nice, I never saw this photo before. I have to sleep now, it's 01:31 here already.

Putin hacked truck and it tried to destroy America. Or Abrams tank.

Canada strng

Pz 68 M0911 also known as Pz 68ET is a upgraded Pz 68, it got up armored and also recieved a 120mm gun though it never got accepted into service. It was produced in 1984 and had a combat weight of 42.000 kg, it also apparently could carry 56 120mm rounds (44 in the hull and 12 on turret floor) and 5200 rounds for its 7,5mm Panzer Maschinengewehr 1951/71. It retained the MTU MB 837 Ba-500 of the Pz 68 which delivered 660hp and its APU.

Not sure if what I'm writing now is needed (or wasn't posted before), but I'll make a little contribution of my own. I always thought of Russian 2nd gen MBTs having "very special" transmission arrangement as a well known fact, but constant confusion and numerous gaffes (like wikipedia articles claiming T-72 transmission to be a synchromesh, or Al-Khalid being equipped with SESM ESM500, which are both garbage) drove me to write this. I do not have much time and haven't been able to find any decent articles, so I'll be brief. Long story short - Soviet/Russian tanks from T-64 through T-90 (and Ukrainian T-84) do not have a transmission per se. All the shifting is done in final drive assemblies instead - so called BKPs - "half-gearboxes". There is no main clutch - when clutch pedal is pressed, clutches in both BKPs are disengaged, and there is also no steering mechanism. Steering is done by switching one of the half-transmissions to the lower gear, or braking with disengaged clutch if it already was in the first gear. It's easy to deduce that this way you get a unique turning radius on each gear. Here's an excerpt with description from T-72A manual: And a gorgeous picture from Rolf Hilmes' "Kampfpanzer Heute und Morgen". Unfortunately I don't have a scanner, so the quality is medicore to say at least. The interesting part is why did they come up with such a system to begin with. BKP was originally designed as a part of Object 430 tank's powerpack, and later used on it's successor - T-64. In both of those tanks BKPs were coupled each to a different end of the "briefcase engine's" crankshaft. One of crankshafts actually, since briefcases (both 5TD and 6TD) are horizontal transversely mounted opposite piston engines. The simple schematic of this: (and here's why 6TD-equipped Al-Khalid couldn't possibly have a SESM transmission) All of it was done in favor of saving space - T-64 was and is easily the most compact main battle tank ever produced. And the tradeoffs were considered acceptable. The obvious downside to this is a principal inability to insert a torque converter in such a power train, attempts to introduce hydrostatic steering also didn't produce any viable results. None the less BKPs were carried onto many subsequent Soviet MBT designs, in favor of both uniformity and space saving. Here's an example of North Korean Chonma tanks model 215 and 216 I've made some time before. Transition from synchromesh to BKP was most likely made because of latter ability to handle more torque, but difference in engine compartment size is also obvious: